A device for measuring the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics whose intensity is greater than a predetermined level.

Maritime Safety Committee

Localized corrosion of a metal surface at, or immediately adjacent to, an area that is shielded from full exposure to the environment because of close proximity between the metal and the surface of another material.

Any device or instrument for measuring salinity, especially one based on electrical conductivity methods.

Cargo landed in excess of the quantity on manifest.

A freight booking made by a skipper or freight forwarder to serve space but not actually having a specific cargo at the time the booking is made. Carriers often overbook a vessel by 10 to 20 percent in recognition that "windy booking" cargo will not act ...

A method of upper air observation consisting of an evaluation of the wind speed and direction, temperature, pressure, and humidity aloft by means of a balloon-borne radiosonde tracked by radar or a radio theodolite.

An accelerated corrosion test for some electrodeposits for anodic coatings on aluminum.

International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage

Temperature to which absolutely dry air would have to be brought in order for it to have the same density as moist air, considered at the same pressure.

A form of deterioration that is distributed more or less uniformly over a surface; See uniform corrosion.

A fabric bag through which a gas stream is passed for the removal of particulate matter.

A wind shift that forces a boat to sail below its mean wind course.

In physics, any process in which the flux density (or power, amplitude, intensity, illuminance, etc.) of a "parallel beam" of energy decreases with increasing distance from the source. Attenuation is always due to the action of the transmitting medium its ...

Atmosphere normale de reference. The term ANR is not usually applied to cfm, it is the new European replacement for FAD and usually follows the metric measurement of air flow, such as Cu Meters per Minute

A depth measuring device.

Deposition of a metal or compound on a heated surface by reduction or decomposition of a volatile compound at a temperature below the melting points of the deposit and the base material. The reduction is usually accomplished by a gaseous reducing agent su ...

An interest-only mortgage ultimately repaid by the proceeds of an endowment assurance policy which.

Foreign substance which comes from the environment, adhering to a surface of a material

Coal tar or asphalt-based coating.